Movie Db Assistant

🚧 under construction 🚧 ⚡beta release available! ⚡

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Generates Movie catalogs documents (HTML, stand alone ZIP,...) from a list of movies titles using Web Crawlers and a templating system. Can scrap data from IMDb

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    flowchart LR

    txt>list of movies titles .txt<br>----------------------------<br>title 1<br>title 2<br>...<br>title n<br>]
    mdba[Movie Db Assistant]
    scrawlers[[scrawlers]]
    websites[(web sites)]
    tple[[template engine]]
    tpls>templates:<br>--------------<br>front engine js<br>themes<br>styles css<br>media]
    mvc[(movie catalog web site)]
    qrc[(queries results cache)]
    dit[[data integrator]]
    oc[(output cache)]
    mdb[(movie db)]

    txt-- parse input file -->mdba

    mdba-- scrawlers queries -->qrc
    mdba-- movies data -->dit

    dit-- movies data -->tple
    dit-- store -->mdb 

    qrc-- json -->mdba
    qrc-- scrawlers queries -->scrawlers

    scrawlers-- scrawl -->websites 

    tpls-.->tple

    tple-- generates -->mvc 
    
    oc<-- files -->tple

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User & Developer manual: manual.md

html movie catalog in browser: movie list

html movie catalog in browser: movie details

Install

👉 download last release: 1.0.0-beta (Inno Setup) for Windows 10 x64 >= 10.0.22621.0

Run

This application run as a tray icon

➡️ run from the Windows Start Menu: Movie Db Assistant

tray icon

tray menu

Build

optional steps if you wish to build the app from source

System Tray application for ™ 10.0.22621.0 and above

Available on Windows 10.0.22621.0 and more

The project has currently no GUI for OSX and Linux systems, even if the app core is multi plateform.

Build & Run from source

• ➡️ build MovieDbAssistant.app and run 🗔 MovieDbAssistant.exe

• ➡️ select an action from the tray menu

👉 consult the manual here : manual.md

Build an application appx package

You can build an appx app from the command line:

• ➡️ folder /package in repo root contains scripts (that must be adapted to your needs) that helps to build an msix application package:

  • make.ps1: prepare a package
  • maje-cert.ps1: create a certificate and sign a package

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Projects & Dependencies

• App : Tray Icon GUI for Windows™

  • SDK: Microsoft.NET.Sdk (Microsoft.NETCore.App)
  • framework net8.0-windows10.0.22621.0 (Microsoft.Windows.Desktop.App.WindowsForms)
  • OS: Windows 10.0.22621.0 and +

• App.Core : application core (🚧coming soon🚧)

  • SDK: Microsoft.NET.Sdk (Microsoft.NETCore.App)
  • OS:

• Dmn : app domain

  • SDK: Microsoft.NET.Sdk (Microsoft.NETCore.App)
  • MovieDbSpiders: /MovieDbScraper/blob/master/README.md
  • NewtonSoft.Json: https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json
  • OS:

• Lib : library (infrastructure)

  • SDK: Microsoft.NET.Sdk (Microsoft.NETCore.App)
  • OS:

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Credits

• Movie theater icons created by Freepik - Flaticon
• Backward icons created by Md Tanvirul Haque - Flaticon
• House-agent icons created by Ihdizein - Flaticon
• Back icon by Icons8
• Play icon by Icons8
• Download icon by Icons8
• Settings icon by Icons8
• Close Window icon by Icons8
• Circular Arrows icon by Icons8
• Spinner icon by Icons8

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Releases History

2024/04/11 - 1.0.0 - initial version

functionalities:

• build html movie catalogs documents from:
  • use MovieDbSpiders json output
  • direct scrap from queries given in files (several formats are supported)
  • multi format queries
  • direct scrap from a query given in last text clipboard entry
  • html catalog templates
  • html catalog resources : backgrounds, fonts, css, js template engine
• Windows setup for System Tray GUI
  • Inno Setup
  • Windows™.msix/.appx